The society and the information 34: Information crosses the border 8

Following on from the last time, I consider about the report of ”Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster” in 1986.

This time, we look how the government and media of Europe and America utilized this nuclear power plant disaster.

If you formerly read “The society and the information 32,33”, you may more understand.

前回に続いて、１９８６年のチェルノブイリ原発事故の報道について考察します。

今回は、欧米の政府やマスコミがこの原発事故を如何に利用したかを見ます。

「社会と情報 ３２、３３」を先に読んで頂くと判り易いです。

Insistence and report of Europe and America

“ If Gorbachev has already lost the trust of neighboring countries in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, nobody believes the statement that he reduces the nuclear weapon toward the world” by New York Times in America

“ The level of the safety management was very low in nuclear energy of the Soviet Union, and, as a result, the risk of the nuclear power disaster has increased extraordinarily” by The Times of the Union

“ Our nuclear power generation technology is fundamentally different from the thing of the Soviet Union, and many safety measures severalfold are provided” by spokesperson of the White House

“ The atomic energy will be “good thing” in future for many countries. The nuclear power plant of this Soviet Union is “evil”. But it is not good that you assume all atomic energy to be bad” by a presidential assistant of the White House

“ Everywhere is graves. The dead 15,000 seemed to have been buried in the job site of the nuclear power plant accident? ” by The New York Post of America

“ Chernobyl nuclear power plant isn’t the structure that shuts away the fissionable material leaking fromthe furnace. But all American nuclear power plants are covered with the safety shield of concrete and steel” by Atomic Industrial Forum

The main point and the aim of the report

“ The Soviet Union is a barbarian slave nation to hardly mind the preciousness of the human life”

“ The industrial technology of the Soviet Union is retreating year by year”

“The Soviet Union does not tell the truth and is untrustworthy in liars”

In the announcement of the Soviet Union, the dead by the accident were 2 at first, after that it became 32.

However, Europe and America reported that the dead were from thousands to the tens of thousands.

If the rumor that the Soviet Union is liar and cannot manage itself spread, the U.S. government is advantaged in the nuclear disarmament.

The most important was that they get the national to believe that this nuclear plant accident never occurs in Europe and America

In those days, OECD (Europe and America) was increasingly depending on the nuclear energy.

And the U.S. did not get an order entry of the nuclear power plant since a nuclear power plant accident of Three Mile Island in 1979.

報道の要点と狙い

「ソ連は人命の尊さなどはほとんど気にかけない野蛮な奴隷国家である」

「ソ連の工業技術力は年々歳々後退している」

「ソ連は真実を告げず、嘘つきで信用できない」

ソ連は事故による死者が当初2名で、後に３２名と公表しており、欧米は数千から数万の死者が出たと報道していた。

米国政府は、ソ連が嘘つき国家、管理が出来ない国家として流布されれば、核軍縮の場で有利になる。

一番重要なことは、この原発事故が欧米の原発では絶対起きないことを国民に印象づけることでした。

当時、OECD（欧米）は原子力エネルギーに頼りつつあり、かつ米国は７９年のスリーマイル島の原発事故以来、原発の受注が1台もなかった。

During about three weeks after the accident, the government and media of Europe and America spread to the national the false rumor and the blame of the sort.

However, the truth became known before long, and the report was revised inconspicuously.

But the government and the atomic energy group were able to achieve the purpose enough.

こうして事故後の３週間ほどの間に、欧米の政府とマスコミは異口同音に、批難とデマを流した。

しかしやがて真実が知れ、その論調は目立たないよう修正されたが、政府や原子力団体は十分に目的を果たすことが出来た。

＜ 3. Reagan and Gorbachev ＞

＜ ３． レーガンとゴルバチョフ大統領 ＞

Inspection of the false rumor

“ As for the number of the casualties, the number of nuclear reactors that encountered a fire, and fire extinguishing, after all, the contents which the Soviet Union announced first were almost right. Journalists that truly received the information of Reagan government reported directly, but after all, it wasn’t right” by Scientist publication of atomic era

“ Even the government of our country was tricking the national concerning the purpose and the safety of development business of American nuclear energy in the various levels in recording from time to time, and was doing the information hiding” by Bernstein of American reporter

The Chernobyl disaster happened in April 1986, but two furnaces being the same type of the Soviet Union had operated in the United States in those days.

Furthermore the more dangerous nuclear reactor for the nuclear weapon production without the bulkhead had operated, and amazingly it was four.

The Soviet Union had learnt lessons from Three Mile Island accident, and executed the remodeling of the safety shield.